It's Obama's.

4.19am McCain concedes - pretty graciously. He's being bipartisan. It's a world away from the 'them and us' rhetoric of George Bush. The crowd in Arizona is far from being a 'rainbow nation', it's extrordinarily white, clean-cut, preppy. This is the end of a political era.

4.13am moving to see the Kenyans celebrating.

4.00am Washington takes Obama over the threshold - he has to have won. The first African American to become the leader of the USA. So the work begins here.

3.53am John Simspon doing vox pops with the crowd in Chicago. Brings out the best, most generous and inlusive characteristics of the USA.

3.50am republican strategist guy says that they've alienated massive chunks of the population and that the republican party is in danger of becoming a 'rural rump'

3.46am The republican guy on the BBC panel looks slumped and defeated. He looks almost speechless.

3.39am Republicans are trying to be as bipartisan as they can. Karen Hughes agrees that it's historic that Obama has won...